LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 87, 18 May 1877, Page 3

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[Special to the Mail.]

(Per Press Agency.) Donedtn, May 17

At Police Court this morning, two clerks of Road Boards were fined a nominal penalty for not forwarding to the Registration officer list of ratepayers for year ending March 30th.

Auckland, May 17

Barque Alasca, at Russel, reports loss of Ocean Mail on Chatham Islands, bound from Wellington to London with wool. Vessel is a total wreck,, and was sold for £900 to Ritchie and Co. All hands were saved. "Wreck occurred on March 19.

Wellington, May 17.

A meeting of O'Shea's creditors was held this afternoon. Liabilities twentynine thousand ; deficiency, eighteen thousand ; proposed dividend, four and sixpence; acoounts showed profit, 1,100 in 1875 ; loss in 1876,.£7,000.

Westport, May 17,

A very brilliant meteor was seen here shortly after six p.m. yesterday, vanishing like showers of falling stars.

[By Submarine-Cable.] London, May 17

Russian despatches, of May 16, say their loss at engagement near Batoum is trifling, while Turkish is enormous. A division of the Russian army has crossed the Danube, and entered Dabrudseha. The engagement is now pro-

ceeding.

London, May 14

Sir Stafford Northcote, in House of Commons, said that although Russia might blockade Egypt, the policy of the Government was strict neutrality. There was no reason to fight whilst road to India was untouched.

Gladstone's motion was rejected by 354 to 223.

Sir H. Drummond Wolff's amendment, declaring that the House declines to entertain any resolution hampering Government without indicating an alternative policy, was carried without division. Roumanian chamber passed resolution authorising the securing of independence. Roumanian accounts of battle at Reni not yet confirmed. Russian batteries at Ibrailia sunk Turkish ironclad with two hundred men.

Official despatches state that Russian troops have arrived at Badin. Turkish official accounts state that' Russian army corps unsuccessfully attacked entrenchments at Batoum, and was defeated with great loss. British squadron ordered to port, said to be Egypt. Terrific hurricane at the Friendly Islands on Tongataboo and Keppel Islands. Over a thousand houses and sixteen churches were blown down. At Tonga, between six and seven hundred houses destroyed. General ruin all over the island. May Queen, with all hands, supposed to *be lost. Ketch Pearl blown high and dry on a reef.